The rating was 7 percent higher than last year’s Week 17 Sunday night game between the Cowboys and Giants *17.1) and got a staggering 44.8 rating in the Washington market, the D.C. area’s highest ever for a regular-season prime-time game since the Nielsen People Meters came into existence in 1987.

The game received a 36.9 overnight in the Dallas market, which ranked behind D.C., Richmond and Norfolk.